memoirs

The little lamb who saved the day: The charming reminiscences in the memoirs of vet James Herriot 

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As Britain’s most beloved vet, James Herriot’s delightfully honest and, at times, hilarious reminiscences of a vet’s life during the 1930s charmed millions of book lovers — and were turned into a long-running BBC series. Around 50 years after it was first published, as the second part of our exclusive reprint proves, his magical work is … Read more

Earl of Sandwich’s touching memoirs as he chronicles his father’s decline into Alzheimer’s disease

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MEMOIR Mapperton Moments  by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more